Google Panda 4.1 Is Rolling Out – Impact Of Update On Websites Ranking

First Google Panda Update was released in February 2011 whose purpose is to stop sites with poor quality content from working their way into Google’s top search results.

On September 23, 2014, another version of Google Panda update has been released “Google Panda 4.1”. Another monotony of Google’s algorithm which emphasis on low quality web content.

Have you recently noticed a significant drop or rise in search rank or traffic! Then it may be due to Panda 4.1 update. Some brands have seen 90% loss in their organic search footprint which was due to thin quality. It is just a reminder for all the website owners to place only unique, informative and quality content on the website if they want to win the race of online business or want to beat their competitor’s in online search engine results.

Make yourself ready for the next update and ensure your position on search results above those that doesn’t play by Google’s rules.

How will Panda 4.1 update affect your SEO?

Numbers of websites are still offering poor quality content and many of them compete for top ranking within the search engine against your business. But with the recent updates including 4.1, search engine is working towards removing them entirely from the search results which means less competition for your business. Google is working on penalizing those websites that contains poor quality and irrelevant content.

Panda 4.1 has shown worst effects on number of top rated websites and some of them are quite surprising! Here is snapshot of some of the Panda 4.1 losers in US:

Who are most affected by this update?

Most affected sites by the update are: games or lyrics sites and medical or health related sites.

If you are among the losers of Panda 4.1 update then take some essential measures to get fast recovery.

Helpful SEO Tips For The Panda 4.1 Update:

Remove low quality content

Block indexing of low quality content pages from your site

Remove duplicate articles and irrelevant content from the website

Replace or remove content written in poor english and contains spelling or grammar errors

Write unique, informative and quality content for website pages

Shalini Verma

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